LIVE Reporting: 2024 Fall Super Stack

Daniel Lefebvre’s trick lately has been winning High Roller tournaments, but he switched it up tonight with the Main Event win. He was a big stack for most of the final table, but was overshadowed by Robbie Mosher for most of it as Mosher held the lead and Lefebvre was a solid second.

That stayed pretty consistent as they made their way through the other 8 players at the final table, including some tough competition like Mike Malm, Tyler Panas, Day 1b chip leader Adam Balog, and 3rd place finisher Sean O’Reilly, not to mention Matthew Ouellette and Shane Brotherwood.

When they got heads up, they cut a deal that saw Lefebvre secure $72,425 while Mosher guaranteed himself $60,442. That left $7k on the table to play for, which went to Lefebvre for a total of $79,425.

Lefebvre first burst onto the scene in 2017 with a win at the SIGA Championships on Dakota Dunes First Nation near Saskatoon but recently he’s been crushing Alberta High Rollers with three in a row last year and another one last month. This will be his biggest lifetime score so far and will put him over $375k in lifetime earnings on Hendon Mob.

Once the final two players made a deal, it sped things up quite a bit. While Daniel Lefebvre was the short stack when they struck the deal, he quickly flipped that around to take the lead, putting Mosher on his heels.

The final confrontation saw Lefebvre’s two-pair best the flopped ace for Mosher. Mosher raised to 165k and Lefebvre called to see A♣Q♠8♣ on the flop. Lefebvre check-called for 150k to the 7♥ turn. Lefebvre checked again, but raised to 800k when Mosher fired 300k.

Mosher shoved and Lefebvre snapped it off with queen-seven for the turned two pair against ace-three for Mosher. The river didn’t help him and it was all over. Mosher secured $72,425 in the deal.

Shortky after they made the deal, the lead has flipped and Lefebvre is up to around 6 million. He got some of those chips in a hand where Robbie Mosher raised to 165k from the button and Lefebvre called.

They both checked the 4♥4♣7♦ flop but Lefebvre led for 300k on the 6♣ turn. Mosher called, but mucked when Lefebvre bet 500k on the K♦ river. Lefebvre now has about 3/4 of the chips in play.

The final two players decided to make a deal. Robbie Mosher has the big stack so he secured $72,424.81 to Daniel Lefebvre’s $60,442.19 with $7k left on the table to play for.

They are heads up now after Sean O’Reilly busted out in 3rd place. I missed the action as I was out of the room at the time.

Kip Howard has been the short stack, or close to it, most of the night. He’s been getting it in regularly and mostly getting his shoves through to tread water and stay alive while laddering to 4th place. His luck finally ran out when he shoved his big blind over a raise from button Daniel Lefebvre. Lefebvre called with pocket eights against Q♦10♦.

Howard flopped a ten, but Lefebvre went running eights for quads. “At least you went out in style,” joked Sean O’Reilly as Howard headed to collect his money.

Robbie Mosher is back in the lead after take three straight hands from Tyler Panas with the third one sending Panas to the cage in 5th place. In the first, Mosher raised to 150k under the gun, the shoved when Panas reraised him to 305k. Panas mucked and they moved onto the next hand with Mosher in the big blind.

Panas raised to 165k under the gun and Mosher called. They both checked the 7♣J♣J♥ flop and Mosher led for 200k on the 6♦ turn. Panas called and they both checked the J♠ river. Mosher’s pocket 9’s were best as Panas mucked his hand.

The final confrontation happened with Mosher in the small and Panas in the big. Mosher had an ace and Panas woke up with queens. Mosher spiked the ace on the flop and Panas was out for 5th place. The hand put Mosher near the 4 million mark, nearly half the chips in play.

In a huge pit between the two leaders, Daniel Lefebvre has jumped on top. Robbie Mosher raised the button to 125k and Lefebvre called from the big blind.

Lefebvre check-raised the A♠5♥4♥ flop from 75k to 250k. Mosher called to the 8♦ turn where Lefebvre fired 410k. Mosher flatted to the 9♦ river but folded when Lefebvre shoved. The hand left Mosher with about 2.2m to 2.8m for Lefebvre with the other three players splitting the remaining 3.6 million in play.

They are down to 5 now after Matthew Ouellette ran into it. The killer hand happened when he got ace-four in against ace-queen and couldn’t find help to leave him with 5 bigs. That went to Tyler Panas shortly after and he was off to the cage for 6th place.

Robbie Mosher raised to 150k, then snap-called when Tyler Panas shoved. It was a race between ace-jack of spades for Mosher and pocket eights for Panas. The eights are working for Panas tonight as the board was clean, though he did have to sweat a bit when Mosher turned straight outs.

Big stack Robbie Mosher raised to 150k from the cutoff and Adam Balog shoved the button for 430k. Mosher showed his hand to Matthew Ouellette before he called with pocket queens. Ouellette had folded queens earlier in an ICM spot and the table had a good laugh.

Balog had ace-queen and was looking for some help. 6♦6♠10♠4♣K♦ was the runout and Balog flopped some hope with backdoor spades, but it never materialized, and the Day 1b leader was out in 7th tonight.

Tyler Panas shoved the button for 360k and Daniel Lefebvre slid out a half-stack of blues to isolate. It was a race between his king-jack and the pocket eights for Panas, and the eights held for a double to put Panas over 800k, but Lefebvre still has a bigger stack in front of him.

They are down to 7 left now after Dave S hit the rail in 7th place. I missed the action but Matthew Ouellette confirmed he took the chips. Dave requests his full name and picture not be used.

Tyler Panas and Daiel Lefebvre limped blind on blind to a flop of 2♦2♥Q♦. Panas check-raised the flop from 50k to 170k and Lefebvre called.

Panas bet 145k on the A♥ turn and Lefebvre smooth-called. The 7♣ river brought a check from Panas and a shove from Lefebvre. After some tank time, Panas let it go.

They are down to 8 in one hand after a big cooler sent Mike Malm out in 10th and Shane Brotherwood out in 9th. Malm shoved and Brotherwood reshoved a bit more right after. Tyler Panas isolated to 600k and it was kings for Panas, jacks for Brotherwood, and eights for Malm. The kings held and they are down to 8.

Mike Malm raised to 115k under the gun and it folded around to Matthew Ouellette in the big blind, who called. Ouellette shoved the 5♣4♣9♣ flop and after a couple of minutes in the tank, Malm called. Malm was on pocket sixes against the club draw for Ouellette with K♣J♥. He turned it when the runout came 3♣3♦.

Malm is down to 220k whole Ouellette is up around 700k.

Kip Howard raised early to 60k, and short stack Tyler Panas called from the button, as did Dave S from the big blind. the flop came 7♦9♥K♦ and Dave checked before Howard bet 85k. Panas shoved for 175k, pushing Dave out of the hand.

Howard called and his king-queen for top pair was needing to hold against the queen-jack straight draw for Howard. Q♠6♠ improved Panas to two pair and gave him the double to about 450k while Howard dropped to about 600k.

There is a break in 10 minutes, and I’ll update the full counts then.